Merlene Frazer

{{short description|Jamaican sprinter}}

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{{MedalSport | Women's athletics}}

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{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

{{MedalSilver |2000 Sydney | 4 × 100 m relay}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalGold |1991 Tokyo | 4 × 100 m relay}}

{{MedalSilver |1997 Athens | 4 × 100 m relay}}

{{MedalBronze |1999 Seville | 200 m}}

{{MedalBronze |1999 Seville | 4 × 100 m relay}}

{{MedalBronze | 2001 Edmonton | 4 × 100 m relay}}

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Merlene Frazer (born 27 December 1973, Trelawny, Jamaica) is a retired female track and field sprinter from Jamaica who specialized in the 200 metres. In the 4 × 100 metres relay, she won a World Championship gold medal in 1991 and an Olympic silver medal in 2000. On both occasions, she ran in the preliminary rounds but not the final. Her biggest individual success was winning a World Championship bronze medal at 200 metres in 1997.

As part of the Jamaican 4 × 100 relay squad in 1991, she is the youngest World Champion ever.{{cite press release |author= |title=World Championship Statistics Handbook |url=https://www.iaaf.org/ebooks/2017/WCH/index.html#page=27 |publisher=IAAF |access-date=2017-08-03}}

Running for the Texas Longhorns track and field team, Frazer won the 1994 200 meters at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships and won two indoor titles as well. She was inducted into the Texas sports hall of fame in 2017.{{cite web |title=Defining Moments: Hall of Honor inductee Merlene Frazer |date=26 September 2017 |url=https://texassports.com/news/2017/9/26/track-field-cross-country-defining-moments-hall-of-fame-inductee-merlene-frazer |access-date=6 June 2024}}